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PLS HELP: use of tickets with connection
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AJC wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:41:32 GMT, Not the Karl Orff wrote: In article , AJC wrote: KL, BA, SQ allow web check-in for international flights. Sorry, I meant to say, "and PRINT your boarding pass". I can fly NW and not have to deal with an airline agent or deal with airline machinery until I get to the gate! Ah yes, that is different. Are the NW boarding passes printed with bar codes? yes. Rather nice. However, if you are flying from Asia, they only let you checkin and print 4 hours in advance (or that was the case when they first extended this to Asia a few months ago). Not much good for a 6 am flight! You can even web checkin for KLM flights from the U.S. and parts of Canada except Toronto. BTW, it appear as that you can't check in by web and print your BP if originating in Europe. |
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PLS HELP: use of tickets with connection
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AJC wrote: Well I've never seen bar code reading machines at gates in Europe, only in the US. Of course they could enter the details manually but wouldn't want too many of those. Departing AMS you can now check in at I can't remember when I last flew NW from Europe in 2001 (AMS) but looking at it, you can web checkin from FRA, LGW, AMS and CDG for n/s flights to the U.S. More European airports are supposed to be added this year. the web site from 30 hours before departure, currently only for hand luggage only, but I was in the airport on Sunday and saw some work going on where they are installing some new machines for passengers with luggage. Hopefully we can then check-in on-line and do whatever with the luggage at the machine. It'd be nice if KL (and a good many of the other airlines) adopts some of the stuff that NW has developed. here's an illustrated process including sample BP: http://www.nwa.com/checkin/ |
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PLS HELP: use of tickets with connection
"AJC" schreef in bericht ... KL has always been rather conservative, though they tend to update infrequently but in large steps. Their booking/ticketing procedure was rather outdated then was upgraded to be one of the best, imo. Booking is now very user friendly and the e-ticket receipt arrives as a .pdf within seconds. Their check-in/boarding pass machines at AMS are also one of the few types I have seen that will work on a passport as well as FF and credit card. I have never got them to work for me. Not with my FF card, not with a passport. I tried 3 or 4 times, never worked, went to manual check-in, asked the agent what was wrong, he/she would say something along the lines of "half the time those machines don't work", and ever since I check-in in the old fashioned way. Much nicer actually to have some human to human interaction. Sjoerd |
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